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Barbara Bloom (artist)

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Barbara Bloom
Born1951
Los Angeles, California
NationalityAmerican
EducationBennington College, Bennington, VT., 1968-69 B.F.A. California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA. 1972

Barbara Bloom (born 1951, in Los Angeles) is a conceptual artist represented by David Lewis Gallery[1]. She works in a wide range of media and is most known for her installation works that have been exhibited internationally. Bloom is loosely connected to a group of artists referred to as The Pictures Generation.[2] For nearly twenty years she lived in Europe, first in Amsterdam then Berlin.[3] She now lives in New York City with her husband, the writer-composer Chris Mann, and their daughter.

Education

Bloom attended Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont, and in 1972[4] received her BFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California where her mentor was John Baldessari.[5]

Work

Beginning in the 1970s, Bloom has created work in a variety of different mediums including photography, installation, film, and books.[6]

In conversation with Susan Tallman, Barbara Bloom has referred to herself as a “novelist who somehow ended up in a ‘visual artist’ queue”.[7] Bloom has often compared herself, and the viewer of her work, to a 'detective'[8] who is confronted with disparate clues, and is asked to form some kind of visual narrative. Her work is often about the nature of looking. She engages her viewer, seducing him/her into a beautifully constructed visual world, one that is underlaid by subversive wrenches thrown in.

Bloom has an ongoing interest in the value and meaning we collectively and individually bestow upon objects and images. She has not been concerned with showing single objects or images, rather with highlighting the relationships between them, and the meanings implicit in their placement and combination. The objects are placeholders for thoughts, and when they are situated in proximity to one another, meanings can reverberate and ricochet off of each other. Additionally, Bloom states in an artist's statement that her "fascination is with the relationships between objects or images—and the meanings implicit in their placement and combination."[9]

Bloom’s use of shadows, traces, Braille, broken objects, watermarks, micro-images all demonstrate an ongoing interest in visualizing the fragile workings of memory, the invisible, the ephemeral, and the absent.[10] These “aesthetic underdogs, sheltered under BB’s wing [...] provide yet another lens for looking at how we seek value in objects and why.”[11]

Recognition

  • DAAD, Berlin Artist’s-in-Residence (1986)[12]
  • Visual Artist’s Fellowship in Photography, The National Endowment for the Arts (1986)[13]
  • The Venice Biennale - Due Mille Prize (1988)[14]
  • The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (1989)[15]
  • The Frederick Weisman Foundation Award (1991)[16]
  • Wexner Center for the Arts Fellowship (1997)[17]
  • Guggenheim Visual Art Fellowship (1998)[18]
  • Visual Artist’s Fellowship in Photography, The National Endowment for the Arts (2006)[19]
  • Getty Research Institute Visiting Scholar (2007)[20]
  • Wynn Newhouse Award (2009)[21]
  • Visual Arts Grant, Foundation of Contemporary Arts (2016)[22]

Exhibitions

Bloom’s work has been shown widely including exhibitions at: Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Venice Biennale; Kunstverein München, Munich; David Lewis Gallery, New York; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; The Serpentine Gallery, London; Kunsthalle Zürich; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; SITE Santa Fe; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; La Bienale de Venezuela, Caracas; Museum Friedricianum, Kassel; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton; Wexner Center for the Arts; Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum; International Center of Photography, New York; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; The Jewish Museum,[23] New York.[24]

Collections

Barbara Bloom’s works are featured in a variety of public collections including: Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; MAK Museum of Applied Art, Vienna; International Center of Photography, New York; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Australian National Gallery, Canberra; Groninger Museum, The Netherlands; Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland; Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, the CU Art Museum at the University of Colorado Boulder,[25] among others.[26]

Publications

Teaching

Bloom has held teaching positions at: Cooper Union School of Art, New York; ICP-Bard Program in Advanced Photographic Studies; Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University; Columbia University-School of the Arts; Yale University- Graduate Department of Sculpture; School of Visual Arts, New York, Riksakademie voor Beeldende Kunst, Amsterdam.[27]

References

  1. ^ Greenberger, Alex (21 August 2017). new-york-has-a-second-pictures-moment/ "Beg, Borrow, Steal: With Several Exhibitions Involving Appropriation, New York Has a Second 'Pictures' Moment". ARTnews. {{cite news}}: Check |url= value (help)
  2. ^ Douglas Eklund, "The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984", Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009
  3. ^ "Barbara Bloom". Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  4. ^ "Barbara Bloom", Tracy Williams, Ltd., 2013
  5. ^ "As it were ... So to speak: A Museum Collection in Dialogue with Barbara Bloom", The Jewish Museum, Spring/Summer 2013
  6. ^ "Artist Project: Barbara Bloom". frieze.com. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
  7. ^ Susan Tallman, The Collections of Barbara Bloom, 2008, p.183
  8. ^ Vicky A. Clark, "Never Odd or Even", 1992
  9. ^ "Barbara Bloom". Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  10. ^ Vicky A. Clark, "Never Odd or Even", 1992
  11. ^ Susan Tallman, The Collections of Barbara Bloom, 2008, p.183
  12. ^ "Barbara Bloom :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts". www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
  13. ^ "Barbara Bloom (American, 1951)". www.mutualart.com. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
  14. ^ "Barbara Bloom :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts". www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
  15. ^ "The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation". louiscomforttiffanyfoundation.org. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
  16. ^ "Barbara Bloom Biography – Barbara Bloom on artnet". www.artnet.com. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
  17. ^ "A creative laboratory". wexarts.org. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
  18. ^ "Barbara Bloom :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts". www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
  19. ^ "Barbara Bloom (American, 1951)". www.mutualart.com. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
  20. ^ "Barbara Bloom :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts". www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
  21. ^ "Barbara Bloom". www.wnewhouseawards.com. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
  22. ^ "Barbara Bloom :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts". www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
  23. ^ "The Jewish Museum". thejewishmuseum.org. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
  24. ^ "Barbara Bloom", Tracy Williams, Ltd., 2013
  25. ^ "CU Art Museum Collections Database". Retrieved 2017-03-03.
  26. ^ "Barbara Bloom", Tracy Williams, Ltd., 2013
  27. ^ "Barbara Bloom" Archived May 21, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, 2013
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